tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post9204950764685054795..comments2024-02-25T10:22:38.186+00:00Comments on The European Citizen: "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?"Eurocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09439536905456080079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post-61437397191085398612010-01-05T18:42:45.732+00:002010-01-05T18:42:45.732+00:00A sounder budgetry policy would be a good start. I...A sounder budgetry policy would be a good start. It might be rooted in language, but it's also a change of attitude: social democratic parties need to not just be proud of their past achievements, but be able to project a coherent vision of gradual progress and change, linked with the idea of fairness, which would be able to sustain them into the future.Eurocentrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439536905456080079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post-40373011673873671822010-01-03T13:16:57.905+00:002010-01-03T13:16:57.905+00:00Super lecture, as you said, thank you. I agree wit...Super lecture, as you said, thank you. I agree with your commentary, too. Certainly the view from France is that we are "all environmentalists now", we (ie all parties) hold to a basically similar set of policies on social affairs. <br /><br />Yet the Socialist Party here cannot get away from proposing more a more nannying role for the state (whilst being unclear as to how to pay for such). This leaves them looking, frankly, unfit to govern.<br /><br />The message has finally got home that France is living beyond its means, even if Sarkozy appears not to notice.<br /><br />Is a "new language" enough? What new vision is left to promote? A vision of a better managed budget would not sound convincing coming from the mouths of social democrats: yet that is probably the only different policy needed -and not only in France.french dereknoreply@blogger.com